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Learning Process:
- Instructional Materials: 52 comprehensive lessons across 10 chapters to build your chess knowledge.
- Video Guides: 42 engaging videos to deepen your understanding.
- Quiz Assignments: 45 daily review quizzes to reinforce key concepts throughout the course.
- Chapter Assessments: 10 chapter-end tests, one per chapter, to ensure mastery.
Chapter 1: The Chessboard Layout | Initial Setup |Pawn Movement & Capture
- Understand the chessboard layout: ranks, files, and diagonals.
- Learn how to set up the pieces for a chess game.
- Master pawn movement: moving one or two squares forward and the rules of capturing.
Chapter 2: Understanding Chess Notation & Pawn Promotion
- Learn how to read and write chess notation (algebraic notation).
- Understand the importance of pawn promotion and its rules.
Chapter 3: What's the Center? | How Rooks & Bishops Move & Capture
- Identify the center of the board and understand why it is strategically important.
- Learn the movement patterns and capturing rules for rooks and bishops.
Chapter 4: How the Queen & Knight Move & Capture
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Learn the movement and capturing abilities of the queen and knight.
Chapter 5: The King’s Moves & Captures | Check & Checkmate
- Understand the limited movement of the king.
- Learn how to give and avoid check and checkmate.
Chapter 6: Understanding En Passant
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Learn the special pawn capture rule, En Passant.
Chapter 7: Castling | Rules
- Understand the rules of castling, including the conditions for both kingside and queenside castling.
Chapter 8: Understanding Chess Piece Values
- Learn the relative values of different pieces and how they affect decision-making during exchanges.
Chapter 9: How Chess Games Can End in a Draw
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Understand the different ways a chess game can end in a draw, including stalemate, threefold repetition, and the 50-move rule.
Chapter 10: Recording Chess Moves
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Learn how to properly record chess moves during a game, using algebraic notation.
Chapter 11: Starting Your Chess Game
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Learn how to start a game of chess, including understanding opening principles and the importance of development.